Bug#994967: r-cran-googlesheets4_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>]

Hi Andreas,


On 19.10.21 19:46, Andreas Tille wrote:
> do you have an idea which package contains roxygen2, which is used to create googlesheets4-package.Rd?
> The term "package" in CRAN terminology is usually what we have as a r-cran-CRANPACKAGE so this
> is r-cran-roxygen2.

aaah, ok , I did find this.

> > Anyway, upstream has different ideas about the copyright holder in googlesheets4-package.Rd and LICENSE.
> > There seems to be room for improvement.
> On what string is your statement based?  The copyright holder of the
> automatically generated file should be the same as the source, shouldn't
> it.

Yes, it is not the copyright of that file but its contents.

 googlesheets4-package.Rd  says: "\item RStudio [copyright holder, funder]"
 LICENSE says:  COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Jennifer Bryan and RStudio

So I would say that Jennifer Bryan is paid by RStudio for the work on 
r-cran-googlesheets4, but RStudio is the only copyright holder.

> For the moment I've added a separate
>
>     Files: man/googlesheets4-package.Rd
>
> paragraph even if I do not see any actual reason for it.

Neither do I, sorry.

   Thorsten